Most homes appear to be middle class, an eclectic mix of suburban ranches and split-levels, frame cottages and beachy boxes.

Their house could be anybody's suburban ranch.

In this case, the architects' solution to reusing the old floor levels was to bring the stoop inside - a sort of city version of the suburban raised ranch.

In Far Rockaway, near the Nassau County border, four-story, Spanish revival-style mansions have risen where suburban ranches once stood.

Life was not as structured, and people's houses tended to be plain old suburban ranches or split levels on cheek-to-jowl lots instead of fancy places on big pieces of land.

Ferrous House, a sustainable re-design of a suburban ranch.

Though they left the design of the houses to the homeowners, whose tastes ran mostly to suburban ranches and mock Victorians, members of the New Town Design Committee were emboldened to make some improvements.

Ordinary suburban ranches are fixed up to look like a haunted house, with spider webs, blackened windows, bats and green hands reaching out.

Except for the courtyard, the house looked like a typical suburban ranch.

Mr. Kubetz and Mr. Burton like the modern look that the sleek reflective solar panels add to the back of their suburban ranch.